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Clean Water Act discharge permit · NPDES MIG580340

HURON COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY, Bad Axe, MI: NPDES MIG580340 discharge permit, effluent exceedances, inspections, penalties

HURON COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY, held by Huron County Medical Care Facility, holds NPDES permit MIG580340, which discharges to Mcdowell Drain. EPA’s file records it issued December 4, 2019 and expiring April 1, 2024. The status and dates are as EPA’s permit file stood when Velarion loaded it (October 14, 2026); EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO carries the permit’s current standing.

Identity

Facility as filedHURON COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY
Permittee as filedHuron County Medical Care Facility
NPDES IDMIG580340
Permit statusAdministratively continued (past its expiration date and still in force until reissued)
Permit typeCoverage under a general permit
Discharger classMinor discharger
Facility typeNot a publicly owned treatment works
IssuedDecember 4, 2019
Expiration dateApril 1, 2024
Issuing agencyState
AddressBad Axe, MI 48413
Receiving waterMcDowell Drain
Receiving water impaired303(D) Listed
SubwatershedMusselman Drain-Pinnebog River (HUC 040801030304)
NAICS623110 – Nursing Care Facilities [Skilled Nursing Facilities]
SIC8051 – Skilled Nursing Care Facilities

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES permit file (ECHO download) and EPA’s NAICS/SIC and component files, the same download.

Effluent limits and exceedances

An effluent exceedance is a discharge monitoring report value over the permit’s numeric limit (EPA’s violation code E90). A violation of any kind also counts a report not filed. Each row is EPA’s own count for that pollutant.

Pollutant or measureLimitsViolations, any kindEffluent exceedancesLatest exceedanceLargest exceedance, as filed
BOD, 5-day, 20 deg. C2559November 30, 2024164% over the limit
Solids, total suspended4428November 30, 2016150% over the limit
pH2471October 31, 2019
Oxygen, dissolved [DO]1241May 31, 201655% over the limit
Flow, in conduit or thru treatment plant2480
Coliform, fecal general2470
Nitrogen, ammonia total [as N]2350
Phosphorus, total [as P]2350
Solids, total390
Arsenic, dry weight390
Selenium, dry weight390
Copper, dry weight390
Cadmium, dry weight390
Nitrogen, total Kjeldahl390
Molybdenum, sludge, total, dry weight [as Mo]390
Zinc, sludge, total, dry weight [as Zn]390
Lead, sludge, total, dry weight [as Pb]390
Nickel, sludge, total, dry weight [as Ni]390
Nitrogen, sludge, total, dry weight [as N]390
Mercury, sludge, total, dry weight [as Hg]390
Potassium, sludge, total, dry weight [as K]390
Phosphorus, sludge, total, dry weight [as P]390

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES limits and effluent violations files (ECHO download); up to 60 rows shown, most exceedances first.

Inspections, violations and enforcement

DateWhat EPA recordedAgency
April 21, 2026Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
May 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2025Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
November 21, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2024Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2023Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2022Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2022Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2021Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
January 1, 2021Monitoring Violations - Invalid/Unrepresentative SampleST6
October 31, 2020Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2019Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
June 21, 2019Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
May 21, 2019Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2019Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
November 21, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 1, 2018Permit Violations - Failure to Submit Timely Permit Renewal ApplicationST6
June 24, 2018Management Practice Violations - Failure to Maintain RecordsST6
June 21, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
May 21, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
January 21, 2018Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
December 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
November 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
October 31, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
June 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
May 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
April 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6
January 21, 2017Reporting Violations - Late Submittal of DMRsST6

Velarion’s copy of EPA’s ICIS-NPDES files does not include the inspections, formal enforcement actions and informal enforcement actions files, so this page shows none of them. EPA’s free Detailed Facility Report on ECHO lists this permit’s inspections, enforcement actions and penalties.

Cited to the EPA ICIS-NPDES violation, inspection and enforcement files (ECHO download); up to 50 rows of each shown, newest first.

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What this page shows

This public-records page covers Clean Water Act NPDES permit MIG580340, held by HURON COUNTY MEDICAL CARE FACILITY in Bad Axe, MI, which discharges to McDowell Drain and is administratively continued. The page lists 22 pollutants under a numeric limit and 4 pollutants with an effluent exceedance for this permit, with the permit issued December 4, 2019 and expiring April 1, 2024.